Very well said, Jim. But being a retired physicist myself, albeit of much less status, I feel compelled to add my expression of appreciation of your work. Thank you for being a mentor to me.
Cheers, Roger On Oct 20, 2011, at 10:00 AM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 06:26:55 -0700 > From: James Hurley <jhurley0...@sbcglobal.net> > To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Subject: Was "New rendering test" or something like that > Message-ID: <a7992ca0-7aad-48c8-b547-8e6049eb9...@sbcglobal.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Richard, Alejandro, Ken, et. al., > > I thank you for your kind words, but RunRev and this list provides a whole > body of specialists. I speak a foreign language, Math--and I'm not the only > one. > > I ought to have mastered a bit of math after 40 years teaching mathematical > physics. (In retirement I have had trouble weaning myself from teaching and > research , and so you have become my occasional outlet.) > > But we are a body of specialists, all versatile within our areas of > expertise. > > To put expertise into perspective, let me say that I have the greatest > admiration for the 5 year old little Chinese child. He can speak Chinese for > heaven's sake! How does he do it? It's all Greek to me--as math is to some > others > > As some have learned from me, I have learned from so many others. It is hard > to remember but somewhere along the line I learned how to extract information > from a list: > > repeat for each line tLine in tList > if tLine... then > put tLine & cr after results > end if > end repeat > > This seems mundane now, but I have picked up a vast storehouse of such tricks > and techniques from others on this list, ideas that were as alien to me as a > Fourier transform might seem to others. Among many other I have learned from > Richard, our essayist, in response to the broader issues and provider of > 4Wprops (where I learned that controls have more properties than Bank of > America has in foreclosure); from Alejandro I have been introduced to the > beautiful mathematics behind the Bezier curve and the utility of > ExportToIllustrator" (I can't imagine what must have gone into that) and > Ken's StackRunner and Stykz and answers to all matters on user interface. > > And the hundreds of others who have shared their particular expertise with > us. Their name is legion. > > > Not only is this list the source of wisdom but it may be the most civilized > list in the computer world. And with so many who have a right to a > considerable ego. Astonishing. It is so easy to be misinterpreted in > communication without accompanying body language. There are about 45 muscles > in the human face, most for the purpose to presenting emotion. How many > emoticons are their? > > So, though 80, I am unwilling to accept Job's tribute to death as "the single > best invention of life." That's a hard sell. To me, as I believe it was to > Jobs, the best part of life is the pursuit of goals that excite. (As an > aside, when I retired from teaching and research, I moved to the foothills of > the Sierra Nevada Mountains and built my own house. Every bit. By myself. I > am so proud. The worst part was being finished.) > > But I digress. Needless to say, I deeply appreciate being well thought of. > Thank you. > > Jim > > And now, back to Earth and breakfast. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
